For the past nine years Jason Moore has been locked up in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
In October 2012, Jason, then 42, and his co-defendant were jointly charged by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) with the murder of Robert Darby in Perth Road, Gants Hill, Ilford, Essex eight years earlier.
Robert died from one stab wound to his chest.
At their Old Bailey trial in December 2013 Jason was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum 18 years to be served.
Those who know the two co-defendants were absolutely shocked when Jason was convicted.
There was no forensic or CCTV evidence of Jason’s guilt. All the police had was an unreliable eyewitness whose patchy account of what happened outside The Valentine pub in Perth Road around midday on August 24, 2005 was riven with confusion and contradictions.
Under pressure from The Met police, desperate for a conviction, the witness amazingly picked out Jason despite him looking nothing like the descriptions he gave on the day of the crime
Jason is 6 inches taller than the height both eyewitnesses claim the assailant was. Despite this significant discrepancy the main witness picked Jason out in a video ID EIGHT YEARS AFTER the stabbing without seeing how tall Jason was.
After being contacted by a newspaper journalist and podcaster, this prosecution eyewitness has added to his account, making new claims that could undermine the case against Jason.
Evidence that is so powerful it would have proven Jason’s defence to be the truth and rendered the real killer’s “fictional” defence untruthful.
The judge and jury, as well as the three Appeal Court judges, were also denied the full truth about some aspects of the forensic evidence presented at trial, and which was subsequently relied upon by the Appeal judges.
Tim Darby, the elder brother of the deceased, continues to maintain that, tragically, Jason is the innocent victim of a gross miscarriage of justice. He insists that The Met got the wrong man – and he told them so.
Lead detectives in 2005 & 2012 told Tim Darby that Jason’s co-defendant was the stabber.
Tim Darby gave evidence at Jason’s first appeal that Paul Hunt, witness at the scene told him that Jason had no part in his brothers stabbing.
New evidence obtained in 2021 proves co-defendant’s girlfriend conceals real motive and proves she knowingly withheld evidence that would have exonerated Jason.
Evidence that would have prevented the trial judge adding three extra years to Jason’s sentence. In an extraordinarily rare move Tim Darby has joined forces with Jason’s family and friends to fight for his release. How many other relatives of murder or serious crime victims have fought to clear the person convicted of killing them? This is what makes this case so rare.
Tim engaged TM-Eye, a well-respected private investigation company run by experienced former Scotland Yard murder detectives, to undertake a comprehensive review of the case. Having considered everything, they too are wholeheartedly convinced of Jason’s innocence.
Tim has also sent letters demanding a full review of the case to trial Judge Nicholas Hilliard KC, the MPS, the MPS Cold Case Review Team, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), and the Criminal Cases Review Commission. He also wrote to former Met chief commissioner Dame Cressida Dick asking her to intervene.
Although, sadly, his pursuit of justice has so far fallen on deaf ears, Tim, along with Jason’s family and friends, remain determined to end Jason’s living hell.
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